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Shawn is an MVP and has the badge to prove it
Microsoft Most Valuable ProfessionalQ3: How does Microsoft select its MVPs?
A3: Of 100 million technical community participants worldwide, about 4,000 are MVPs. Outstanding technical community members are nominated by their peers, Microsoft employees, and MVPs. Each year a panel of Microsoft employees reviews the contributions of each nominee for quality, quantity, and level of impact on the technical community. Today's MVPs reflect Microsoft's global customer base and breadth of technologies.
If anyone would like to nominate anyone for MVP status the page to start the process is here .....
https://mvp.support.microsoft.com/gp/mvpbecoming
Nominations for yourself would not normally be high on the list of potential MVP's I would imagine
No not a hint LOL
As for retention, according to Microsoft every active MVP is monitored and assessed for renewal to the same criteria used to make the initial award.
OK, good answers, thanks for the responces everyone. :)